On top of some pita/All covered with ghee/I lost my poor meatball/When somebody sneezed

-Old Syrian Boy Scout Song

In an attempt to roll with the punches last week at work, I decided to embrace spherical foods, my savory favorite of which is the meatball. I like 'em big, juicy, and slightly rare. Again, I'm talking about meatballs.

I found a recipe on SyrianCooking.com for "Dawood Basha", which by the parenthetical that followed implied can be roughly translated as "meatball." But I wouldn't know because I don't speak Arabic. YET. Below is a slightly modified version.

Uncooked meatballs ready for their close-up.

Ingredients

1 pound beef or lamb

2 cups your husband's homemade spaghetti sauce

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 cup chopped parsley

1/2 tablespoon Baharat (Syrian Spice Mix)*

1/2 cup sesame seeds

Olive oil or ghee

*Baharat can be bought online or at most foreign food markets. You can make it yourself by combining spices that might just be already in your pantry (what I did).